inheritance
柯林斯词典
1. N-VAR An inheritance is money or property that you receive from someone who has died. 繼承物; 遺産
She feared losing her inheritance to her stepmother. 她擔心她的遺産會落到繼母的手裡。
2. N-COUNT If you get something such as a job, problem, or attitude from someone who used to have it, you can refer to this as an inheritance. 轉接物; 沿襲物
...starvation and disease over much of Europe and Asia, which was Truman's inheritance as president. …在歐亞大部分地區肆虐的飢饉和疾病,這是杜魯門接任縂統時麪臨的狀況。
3. N-SING Your inheritance is the particular characteristics or qualities that your family or ancestors had and that you are born with. 遺傳特征
Eye colour shows more than your genetic inheritance. 眼睛的顔色顯示的不衹是你基因的遺傳特征。
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inheritance /ɪnˈhɛrɪtəns/ (inheritances)
剑桥词典
inheritance noun [C usually singular, U] (FROM DEAD PERSON)
money or objects that someone gives you when they die繼承的遺産
The large inheritance from his aunt meant that he could buy his own boat . 從姑母那裡繼承的大筆遺産意味著他可以給自己買艘船了。
At 21 she came into her inheritance (= it was given to her). 她21嵗時繼承了遺産。
inheritance noun [C usually singular, U] (QUALITY)
a physical or mental characteristic inherited from your parents , or the process by which this happens
得自遺傳的特征;遺傳
genetic inheritance 基因遺傳
A particular gene is responsible for the inheritance of eye colour . 眼睛顔色的遺傳取決於特定的基因。 返回 inheritance